DIY Book Scanner

Daniel Reetz, the founder of the DIY Book Scanner community, has recently started making videos of prototyping and shop tips. If you are tinkering with a book scanner (or any other project) in your home shop, these tips will come in handy. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn0gq8 ... g_8K1nfInQ

"Use other software" probably isn't the most helpful answer, but it's the best I can personally do. If you use Homebrew with Lion, you can install Scan Tailor much faster and easier. While it also compiles most things from source, it distributes precompiled Qt and other libraries needed to build Scan Tailor, so you don't have to spend hours compiling.

The disadvantage is that Homebrew and Macports don't coexist well. If you switch over to Homebrew, you'll need to remove Macports and use Homebrew to install any software you were using there.

If you decide to try Homebrew, you can install Scan Tailor with the command:

Some day I hope someone will figure out how to make a proper build of Scan Tailor for Mac OS X that comes as a .dmg file and works on all versions of OSX without crashing. My best guess on why it crashes loading JPEGs is the one I mentioned a long time ago.